Interactive grids: using hover interactions to edit data and minimize errors
Sometimes the development team decides to implement a data grid. In terms of design, you can do a lot to make it easier for the interface’s users to understand whats being presented and how to interact with it: icons and alternate lines are a simple example.
Imagine that your user needs to grant different levels of access to different people that are listed in a data grid. I got excited with Usability Post’s article and wanted to work around it, so I put the controls under a hover interaction while still gave feedback in the other lines about what was choosen earlier. She can see whats going on just taking a look at the data grid. If she wants to edit any data, she just needs to hover the line to enter the “edition mode” and change what needs to be changed.
